Starting from 2000 a group of organizations became known collectively as “legal information institutes” or “LIIs” have actively worked at promoting the publication of legal information from more than one source (not just “their own” information) for free access via the Internet, in an effort to mutually collaborate both politically and technically. At European level few government-operated portals provide multi-jurisdictional access to legal information. As a consequence, the need is growing for an integrated and distributed platform for accessing EU Member States and European institutions' legal content. The paper presents a new initiative called “EuroLII”, as an umbrella project capable to give comprehensive free access to legal information in Europe, by providing a single search facility for databases hosted in European legal information institutes.